Massive cyber attack on left-wing MPs in Berlin

Left-wing members of the Bundestag have fallen victim to a massive attack on their email inboxes. According to the party, these were flooded with thousands of emails and paralyzed. They could no longer be used.

There was talk of a “spam bombing attack.” According to the information, the emails came from different senders, had different subjects and were written in different languages.

"That's over 20,000 emails that have already been received by every member of my parliamentary group, in all possible languages ​​from all over the world with many different sender addresses. More are arriving in the email inbox every minute, every second," said Ina Latendorf, parliamentary manager of the parliamentary group, to the ARD capital studio. "We are now in the process of deleting, deleting, deleting, and unfortunately this is severely restricting the ability of our group members' offices to function."

Other factions not affected

It is still unclear who is behind the attack. Other factions have not yet reported any attacks. “We asked the other parliamentary groups. They signaled to me on Saturday and Sunday that no members of the Bundestag were affected,” said Latendorf.

There were only delays in the Bundestag's email traffic overall because the servers have enough capacity. The aggrieved MPs have now received instructions on how to filter the mass emails. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) was called in.